Four-color porridge, as its name implies, is porridge cooked with four colors of food. Four-color porridge is mainly made of mung beans, red beans, cereal and black sesame seeds, which has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting fluid production, diuresis and relieving summer heat. Four-color porridge is very suitable for summer and autumn. In summer, people are hot and thirsty, get angry easily and lose appetite. Four-color porridge can be cooked with four things, which is helpful for clearing away heat and quenching thirst, benefiting stomach and nourishing yin.

Drinking four-color porridge can prolong life for the elderly.

As children, everyone wants their parents to live a long and healthy life. Nowadays, the elderly know more and more about keeping in good health. However, many young people are too busy with their careers and families to take care of their parents. Therefore, with the decline of physical function, the elderly often have symptoms such as dry stool, dizziness and tinnitus. We advise the elderly to keep healthy through diet therapy.

First, mung beans: mung beans in four-color porridge are very suitable for the elderly to cook porridge. It has good effects of removing fire, invigorating primordial qi, harmonizing five internal organs, clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving summer heat and quenching thirst, and lowering blood fat and blood pressure.

Second, red beans: red beans are an important food for diuresis and dampness. Old people often eat red beans, which have the effects of enriching blood and diuresis, reducing swelling, clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, detoxifying and expelling pus, facilitating defecation, strengthening the spleen and stopping diarrhea.

Third, black sesame: black food generally has the effect of enriching blood and tonifying kidney. Black sesame can nourish liver and kidney. Old people often eat black sesame seeds to reconcile the five internal organs, and treat physical weakness, premature gray hair, dry stool and dizziness.

4. Oatmeal: Old people often eat oatmeal for breakfast. We can also use oatmeal as an important ingredient of Siwu porridge, because oatmeal has the effects of nourishing the heart, quenching thirst, calming the liver, treating blood leakage and hemoptysis, and can also supplement fatigue, strengthen blood vessels and nourish the five internal organs.

Four-color porridge

The raw materials are mung beans, red beans, cereal and black sesame.

Practice mung beans, red beans, oatmeal, black sesame seeds, add water to cook porridge, and add sugar or rock sugar to eat on an empty stomach.

It has the effects of clearing away heat, promoting fluid production, relieving summer heat and diuresis, and is suitable for treating body fluid injury caused by fever, summer heat and polydipsia.

The therapeutic effect of four-color porridge is very high. The cereal in the four-color porridge can help the elderly to lower their blood sugar, and dietary fiber can help the elderly to relax their bowels and increase their appetite. Old people often feel weak and dizzy when they are old. Eating black sesame helps to replenish qi and blood and keep fit. Red beans can help the elderly to strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea, detoxify and clear heat. When the elderly get angry in summer, they can cook porridge with mung beans to help clear away heat and relieve summer heat. Therefore, people use these four foods with very high therapeutic value to cook four-color porridge, which is very suitable for the elderly. So four-color porridge is also called longevity porridge.